Stage 2 guidelines for listening: Phonology

Here is a phonology objective for Stage 2 for listening:

To recognize phonemic contrasts in connected speech

Here are some phonology strategies for Stage 2 guidelines for listening:

• Analysis

  Discover contrastive sounds of the language and their variants.

• Practice

  Use discrimination exercises to distinguish among the contrastive sounds, tones, and intonation patterns within the frame of a sentence.

• Selective attention

  Pay attention to contrasts you find particularly difficult.

Here are some phonology techniques for Stage 2 for listening:

• The Single Sound Drill technique
• The Sound Contrast Drill technique
• The Stress Pattern Drill technique
• The Tone Pattern Drill technique
• The Intonation Drill technique
• The Audio Archive technique

Here is a phonology activity for Stage 2 for listening:

Listen for intonation, rhythm, and word boundaries you hear in speech.

• Generic module: Stage 2 guidelines for listening: Phonology
• In overview module: Stage 2: Listening modules
• In modular book: Guidelines for a Language and Culture Learning Program, by Carol J. Orwig
• In document collection: Other Resources
• In bookshelf: Language Learning

This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 3.5, published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 1999. [Ordering information.]

Page content last modified: 8 December 1998

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